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Livingstone has promoted Barry Sheehan to Director and Will Evans and Tom Reece to Associates, as it continues to invest in developing talent from within the firm.
Sheehan works across the Business Services and Industrial sectors and is widely respected for his knowledge and network within the Packaging sector. Since joining the firm in 2014 from Deloitte, he has advised on a broad range of transactions including the sales of Adare Advantage to Americk Packaging and the Electro-Ceramics division of Morgan Advanced Materials, the buy-out of Panther Logistics backed by LDC and the sale of Brookdale Care to Tracscare.
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Augentius has appointed industry veteran Erin Sarret as its new European Business Development Director.
The move follows another successive year of 20 per cent growth for the firm, and marks its intention to build on this expansion in a region blessed by record fundraising and beset by unique regulatory challenges.
Sarret, who will lead the growth initiative, is a well-known figure within the Private Equity and Real Estate industries, and will bring nearly two decade’s worth of top-tier experience to the role. Having originally qualified as a lawyer and been admitted to the Californian Bar in 1994, Sarret entered
Independent trust, fund and corporate services provider Crestbridge has appointed Anke Jager (pictured), as Director with a particular remit to lead and develop its Corporate Services division in Luxembourg, and has promoted Ludivine Nicolai to Director.
In her new role, Jager will take on responsibility for overseeing and continuing to grow Crestbridge’s business in Luxembourg that offers a broad range of corporate, administration and company secretarial services to global institutions including funds, fund managers, corporates and banks.
With over 12 years’ experience in Luxembourg’s financial services industry, Jager has extensive knowledge of the multi-jurisdictional company secretarial and corporate governance
Maples and Calder has appointed Adrian Francis, formerly a barrister at Three Stone in London, as a partner in the firm’s BVI Litigation and Insolvency practice.
Francis has extensive experience working in large cross border teams on high value, complex international disputes. He was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1988 and has also been called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI).
Following the passage of Hurricane Irma in early September, a number of Maples and Calder’s BVI team members have temporarily relocated to the firm’s Cayman Islands office. Francis will also
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has appointed Steve Harrison as Portfolio Director. Based in the Leeds office, Harrison will be focussed on actively managing YFM’s growth and buy-out investments as part of the portfolio team led by David Bell.
With over 19 years’ industry experience, Harrison joins from Santander Corporate Bank, where he was a Director in Santander’s Growth Capital team for five years. There, he launched the bank’s GBP200 million Growth Capital Fund across the North of England, was responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities, structuring bespoke funding packages and leading all aspects of the investment process. He also provided
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) is to appoint former Allergan executive Anish Mehta as CEO of the international women’s health assets portfolio which CVC Fund VI agreed to acquire from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Teva) on 17 September 2017.
The appointment is subject to regulatory approval.
Mehta will join from Allergan Plc, where he was Head of International Business Development, leading a team responsible for corporate development and licensing activity in support of the international business. While there, he led the USD40.5 billion divestment of the Actavis Global Generics business to Teva. Prior to this, Anish had responsibility for the European
Apposite Capital, the private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has appointed Rory Pope as Partner and member of its Management Board. Pope has been working with Apposite as a full-time consultant since March.
In addition, Apposite has also appointed Alexander Cunynghame as Investment Executive.
Pope brings over 20 years of deal making experience in private equity and corporate finance. Prior to joining Apposite Capital, Rory was at BGF Group plc where he was co-head of the healthcare and lifesciences team having joined BGF in 2012 from Advent International where he had been a Partner. Rory joined
Fund Partners (FP), a UK-based independent ACD (Authorised Corporate Director) has hired Chris Spencer as the new Managing Director for its London office.
FP was recently acquired by FundRock, one of the largest independent UCITS and AIFM investment management companies in Europe.
Over the course of his 30 year career, Spencer has gained extensive experience in the UK investment funds industry covering all aspects of retail and fund administration as well as developing brokerage capability alongside asset management. Before joining FP, Spencer was Managing Director at International Financial Data Services (IFDS), which has been renamed DST, where, over his 13
Growth private equity specialist Keensight Capital has appointed Nicolas Ulrich as an Analyst in the firm’s investment team.
Prior to joining Keensight Capital, Nicolas worked as an M&A Analyst within the investment bank Natixis Partners, formerly Leonardo & Co France.
He also worked as an Auditor at EY and is a graduate of Paris-Dauphine University and ESCP Europe.
SEI has appointed David Hintz, CFA, as US Equity Portfolio Manager. In this role, Hintz will be responsible for the management of all US large-cap equity strategies and report to Jason Collins, Global Head of Equity Portfolio Management in the Investment Management Unit at SEI.
“David demonstrates an investment philosophy and approach that closely align with ours,” says Kevin Barr (pictured), Executive Vice President and Head of the Investment Management Unit at SEI. “His investment experience strengthens our portfolio management team and reinforces our dedication to offering competitive products and services.”
With nearly 30 years of experience in the
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